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Living Is Harder: Suffs and Grenfell Suffrage and outrage make for rich stage experiences.
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Apr. 16, 2024
Writing Down the Bones: Sally & Tom A curiously muted Hemings-and-Jefferson meta-story by Suzan-Lori Parks.
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Apr. 15, 2024
Look, I Made a Woman: Lempicka The musical somehow turns a radical bisexual painter, living and loving in Paris between the wars, a little bit boring.
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Apr. 14, 2024
St. Ronnie the Oblivious: Richard Foreman’s Symphony of Rats The Wooster Group brings back a Reagan-era yawp of discontinuity.
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Apr. 11, 2024
Not Without Ambition, But … Macbeth (an undoing) A reimagining of Shakespeare, centering Lady Macbeth, asks the wrong questions about her.
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Apr. 11, 2024
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Mar. 28, 2024
Always Gets a Replay: The Who’s Tommy Yes, it’s a show from another time and culture. But the tension that disconnect brings is fascinating.
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Mar. 27, 2024
Grief Hotel, Where You Check In to YourselfLiza Birkenmeier’s discontinuous, fragmented play imagines a quasi-spa marketed to anyone experiencing loss.
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Mar. 24, 2024
Becoming Brian Friel: Philadelphia, Here I Come! At the Irish Rep, early work by a future master.
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Mar. 21, 2024
Water for Elephants Is Best When It’s Behind the TimesDazzling circus arts and great puppetry are almost enough.
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Mar. 19, 2024
In Teeth, Purity Culture Leaves Bite Marks Michael R. Jackson and Anna K. Jacobs are out for blood.
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Mar. 18, 2024
Ibsen, Translated Into American: An Enemy of the People With Jeremy Strong, Michael Imperioli, and drinks on the house.
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Mar. 14, 2024
Love and Brains, Dull and Sharp: The Notebook and The Effect A musical adaptation that’s generic to the point of inanity, and a play that asks and examines real questions about what a person is.
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Mar. 11, 2024
Corruption’ s Heroes Are Not Serious PeopleMurdoch’s phone-hacking scandal, recounted by thinly drawn archetypes.
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Mar. 10, 2024
The Old-Weird-America Pleasures of Dead Outlaw From the team behind The Band’s Visit, another musical that is more than meets the eye.
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Mar. 7, 2024
Doubt Returns in a Traditionalist ProductionJohn Patrick Shanley’s dialogue still packs heat, but the fire’s been turned down this time.
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Mar. 7, 2024
Feeling the Illinoise, This Time Through Movement Sufjan Stevens’s album becomes a transcendent theater-dance-music piece.
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Feb. 28, 2024
In The Ally, Impossible Conversations We’re All Having Itamar Moses’s drama about a lefty Israeli American caught up in the complexity of pro-Palestine academia is confident and eloquent in its humility.
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Feb. 26, 2024
Fiasco’s Smooth-Sailing Pericles An affable, legible take that intermittently sings.
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Feb. 25, 2024
Through a Glass, Familiarly: The Hunt In this adaptation of a Danish thriller, almost all the characters conform to movie-trope behavior and movie-trope actions.
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Feb. 20, 2024
Sunset Baby’ s Troubled Children of the RevolutionDominique Morisseau’s play looks at the time after revolutionary fire is reduced to a simmer.
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Feb. 14, 2024
Alone in the Dark: I Love You So Much I Could Die and On Set With Theda Bara Two solo shows, looking to make the most of limited resources—and one, at least, soars.
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Feb. 13, 2024
Two Queens (and Some Dancing): The Apiary Virtuosic performances in a play that can’t quite get airborne.
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Feb. 11, 2024
Too Too Solid: Eddie Izzard’s Hamlet The British comedian, so deft on a standup stage, has a go at Shakespeare—and tightens up.
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Feb. 8, 2024
The Trouble With Trolls, in Russian Troll Farm Sarah Gancher’s play takes us to the bunker where disinformation begins its journey.
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Feb. 7, 2024
We’re in This Together: Bark of Millions and The Following Evening A maximalist performance and a quiet, inward-looking play—both, somehow, about creative legacy and earthly mystery.
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Feb. 2, 2024
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Jan. 28, 2024
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Jan. 25, 2024
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Jan. 24, 2024
The Long Zoom of Public Obscenities A story of bringing a partner home to Kolkata is steeped in naturalism.
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Jan. 17, 2024
Diary of an Overbooked Theater-Festival Surfer: Week Two Puppets, worms, toilets, and a really aggressive Shakespeare take.
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Jan. 11, 2024
Diary of an Overbooked Theater-Festival Surfer: Week One On finding eccentric Miranda July commentary and gonzo race commentary during January’s experimental-theater blitz.
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Jan. 9, 2024
Can You Put Your Faith in Prayer for the French Republic ? It’s a timely and engaged play, but that engagement is glib.
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Jan. 4, 2024
14 Plays and Musicals We Can’t Wait to See in 2024 Izzard in Shakespeare, Strong in Ibsen, Carell in Chekhov, and a freaky Michael R. Jackson musical.
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Dec. 18, 2023
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Dec. 15, 2023
When the Play’s Not the Thing Too often, great performances and stagecraft are let down by the script behind them.
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Dec. 8, 2023
The Best Theater of 2023 A play that’s not not about Fleetwood Mac, the return of Merrily and Purlie , and the agony of high-school test prep.
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Dec. 8, 2023
Exhilarating Reactions to a Troubled World Plus Sondheim old and (for the final time) new.
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Dec. 5, 2023
Reflections on Lost Lands: Manahatta and Life & Times of Michael K Onstage, the commoditization of Lenape land and the reclamation of a South African farm.
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Nov. 30, 2023
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Nov. 21, 2023
At Playwrights Horizons, a Tinge of the Fringe Amusements, School Pictures, and Sad Boys in Harpy Land are running in repertory.
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Nov. 19, 2023
Hell’s Kitchen: A Familiar Diary of Alicia KeysConventional musical-theater turf, made fresh by killer performances.
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Nov. 17, 2023
Who Thought Stoppard Needs More Sex? Bedlam’s Arcadia falls into an easy trap.
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Nov. 16, 2023
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Nov. 16, 2023
Is Anything Real in Scene Partners? Is Everything? John J. Caswell Jr.’s script is like an Escher drawing, endlessly spiraling in on itself.
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Nov. 14, 2023
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Nov. 14, 2023
Navigating the Expanses of Danny and the Deep Blue Sea Christopher Abbott and Aubrey Plaza star in the 1983 John Patrick Shanley play that’s beloved of young actors.
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Nov. 8, 2023
Tragic Losses, of Life and Language, in Watch Night and Translations The destruction wrought by colonialism and racism, rendered onstage in very different ways.
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Nov. 5, 2023
What’ll It Be? At FOOD, the End of the World As We Know It. A farcical, funny, and haunting commentary on the industrialized, globalized diet.
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Nov. 2, 2023
I Need That Does Not Spark JoyDanny and Lucy DeVito, as an almost-hoarder and his daughter, are trapped in a play full of junk.
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